Simply put, Windows Phone 7 failed to thrive. It didn't take off. All that estimated $1B in marketing money added up to a big bucket-o-fail. It peaked at less than two percent of share on launch and is trailing off now to less than one fourth of that. Wishing that will change is not going to make it change. For the past month it's not even making up for the people giving up on Windows 6.5.
I, for one, would prefer they didn't gain any market share whatsoever. I would prefer that Microsoft fail in mobile, and that they continue to fail spectacularly by burning huge bonfires of money to no avail. Mobile is the future, and if you look at their suit against Barnes and Noble you will see that their desire for market share is not about innovation, it's not even about money. It's about control. They want to prevent all progress they don't supply. It's not enough for them to win - everybody else must lose also, including the customers. They want to stop all this neat stuff we've been getting the last few years. We like this stuff.
No, we don't need Microsoft for a vibrant competitive environment. Quite the opposite. For a vibrant competitive environment we need them to shrivel away to nothing through wasting all their money on lost causes. From the look of things they're well on their way.
Android tablets will put up the good fight yet. The Nook may save Barnes and Noble, particularly if they get really angry. We just need some tablets to hit the right price points with credible features and decent tablet-base OS. After that choice will win out over The iPad.
This one is looking like a global crime network with money laundering facilities and boots on the ground. This one is going to sting, based on some reports of illicit card accesses that have happened in the past week.
That works too. But if a right is a property, the ability to sell it is assumed. It's just a hop from there to corporations aggregating them and people slaving away in the IP mines for poor wages.
Apt-url is especially awesome. No more long involved postings about how to get some complex piece of software installed. Just click here to install Blender - try it, you'll like it.
The bile will be back when this thing ships - the every-second-version scheme is with us still. And any month now with IPv6 every Windows box will once again be globally adressable from the Internet. And they've not given up the evil empire bit: look at Nokia, at Yahoo, at the IP lawsuits they're filing both directly and by proxy. That day is not done.
But yes, they are dying pathetically. Still a lot of kicking left before the horse is all the way dead though.
I like this train of thought. "It's harder" isn't really an excuse. The devices aren't there to fit the developers. They're there to serve the people - and people have differring needs.
...To prevent the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for unlimited Times to Authors and Inventors and Trolls the exclusive Right to all Writings and Discoveries.
It's a different format, but I'm liking the Redbox thing. It's handy and inexpensive, and importantly - commitment free. If you're going to do a rental and it's in your area, give it a try. The website will tell you what movies are available in your area, and which box to get it from. You can return the movie to any box. DVD's are $1, Blu-Ray is $1.50 (per day). If you don't bring the movie back they just ding your card a reasonable retail price and you're done. I hear they're considering video games as well. It's credit card only though.
/obviously no, I don't work for Redbox.
And yeah, Netflix is kicking butt. They're coming to some large numbers though and the studios are on to them now. They're going to see increasing friction. It remains to be seen if they can see it through. I hope they do well. I also hope they release an Android client.
Reed Hastings is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Netflix. He also sits on the Microsoft Board of Directors. This may - or may not - have anything to do with why you can't get an Android Netflix viewer client. But those below who would complain should be aware of this.
I just helped a lot of people (>3K) adapt to W7 from XP. I know some stuff about enterprise stuff.
It's all about the apps. There are hundreds of enterprise line-of-business apps that are custom crafted to work with IE6 and its plugins. Getting them to work with a different version of IE is a nightmare. We put it over, mostly, but we had to brute force a lot of it. Some of it just would not go and was writ off as a cost of staying current. That story's not over yet, as some critical apps conflict with each other in W7.
If they had cared to craft their line-of-business apps with a server backend and a standards-compliant browser front end, we'd have saved a few hundred thousand dollars. But they didn't, they still don't, and they won't.
Go ahead - standardize on the next version of this crud. The unit cost goes up every year. Making it work is a grind, but if you didn't take it up, we'd have little work. That Linux and iOS stuff just works and there's no service money in that for me.
All of the issues in it are easily overcome of course. My favorite bit was right at the end. They offered the paticipating students to buy the iPads used for half of retail. NOT ONE declined.
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You may as well see the data too. Estimate of WP7 sales through scraping Facebook App active user data.
Simply put, Windows Phone 7 failed to thrive. It didn't take off. All that estimated $1B in marketing money added up to a big bucket-o-fail. It peaked at less than two percent of share on launch and is trailing off now to less than one fourth of that. Wishing that will change is not going to make it change. For the past month it's not even making up for the people giving up on Windows 6.5.
I, for one, would prefer they didn't gain any market share whatsoever. I would prefer that Microsoft fail in mobile, and that they continue to fail spectacularly by burning huge bonfires of money to no avail. Mobile is the future, and if you look at their suit against Barnes and Noble you will see that their desire for market share is not about innovation, it's not even about money. It's about control. They want to prevent all progress they don't supply. It's not enough for them to win - everybody else must lose also, including the customers. They want to stop all this neat stuff we've been getting the last few years. We like this stuff.
No, we don't need Microsoft for a vibrant competitive environment. Quite the opposite. For a vibrant competitive environment we need them to shrivel away to nothing through wasting all their money on lost causes. From the look of things they're well on their way.
Android tablets will put up the good fight yet. The Nook may save Barnes and Noble, particularly if they get really angry. We just need some tablets to hit the right price points with credible features and decent tablet-base OS. After that choice will win out over The iPad.
Apple is selling all the iPhones and iPads they can make. They could not possibly be doing better, unless they sold the same amount and charged more.
Wow, the resellers are all over that one. $1,999 for a $400 tablet? 5x markup?
Let the hate flow through you.
This one is looking like a global crime network with money laundering facilities and boots on the ground. This one is going to sting, based on some reports of illicit card accesses that have happened in the past week.
You're holding it wrong.
That works too. But if a right is a property, the ability to sell it is assumed. It's just a hop from there to corporations aggregating them and people slaving away in the IP mines for poor wages.
The worry isn't in the hardware.
Apt-url is especially awesome. No more long involved postings about how to get some complex piece of software installed. Just click here to install Blender - try it, you'll like it.
The bile will be back when this thing ships - the every-second-version scheme is with us still. And any month now with IPv6 every Windows box will once again be globally adressable from the Internet. And they've not given up the evil empire bit: look at Nokia, at Yahoo, at the IP lawsuits they're filing both directly and by proxy. That day is not done.
But yes, they are dying pathetically. Still a lot of kicking left before the horse is all the way dead though.
This one does that. It just does it whether you want it to or not.
I like this train of thought. "It's harder" isn't really an excuse. The devices aren't there to fit the developers. They're there to serve the people - and people have differring needs.
And Bob was a Melinda Gates thing. So we all sufferred - but maybe Bill got a little extra something out of it.
...To prevent the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for unlimited Times to Authors and Inventors and Trolls the exclusive Right to all Writings and Discoveries.
It appears from this thread that Sony's messaging people have some work to do.
It's a different format, but I'm liking the Redbox thing. It's handy and inexpensive, and importantly - commitment free. If you're going to do a rental and it's in your area, give it a try. The website will tell you what movies are available in your area, and which box to get it from. You can return the movie to any box. DVD's are $1, Blu-Ray is $1.50 (per day). If you don't bring the movie back they just ding your card a reasonable retail price and you're done. I hear they're considering video games as well. It's credit card only though.
/obviously no, I don't work for Redbox.
And yeah, Netflix is kicking butt. They're coming to some large numbers though and the studios are on to them now. They're going to see increasing friction. It remains to be seen if they can see it through. I hope they do well. I also hope they release an Android client.
Reed Hastings is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Netflix. He also sits on the Microsoft Board of Directors. This may - or may not - have anything to do with why you can't get an Android Netflix viewer client. But those below who would complain should be aware of this.
I just helped a lot of people (>3K) adapt to W7 from XP. I know some stuff about enterprise stuff.
It's all about the apps. There are hundreds of enterprise line-of-business apps that are custom crafted to work with IE6 and its plugins. Getting them to work with a different version of IE is a nightmare. We put it over, mostly, but we had to brute force a lot of it. Some of it just would not go and was writ off as a cost of staying current. That story's not over yet, as some critical apps conflict with each other in W7.
If they had cared to craft their line-of-business apps with a server backend and a standards-compliant browser front end, we'd have saved a few hundred thousand dollars. But they didn't, they still don't, and they won't.
Go ahead - standardize on the next version of this crud. The unit cost goes up every year. Making it work is a grind, but if you didn't take it up, we'd have little work. That Linux and iOS stuff just works and there's no service money in that for me.
Your journey starts here. Good luck and may God speed you on your path.
He can read a book in the dark. Presumably he's mad the iPad doesn't come in a braille version.
The improvement starts at one textbook replaced. I can't recall many texts that weighed so little as an iPad.
They're the Facebook generation. They really don't care.
and it has cameras.
All of the issues in it are easily overcome of course. My favorite bit was right at the end. They offered the paticipating students to buy the iPads used for half of retail. NOT ONE declined.
This will be a lively discussion. I think it's a great move. Should get the backpack mass down.
Phobos or deimos. Gravity is low enough to land and come back and we are more likely to put a base there.